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Why Electroshock (ECT) Should Be Banned This historic, International Day of Protest against Electroshock in Boston and 24 other cities in nine countries is to bring awareness to the dangers of Electroshock and urging an immediate ban. This protest honors all shock survivors, especially anti-shock activist & author Leonard Roy Frank who said “If the body is the temple of the spirit, the brain may be seen as the Inner Sanctum of the body, the holiest of places. To invade, violate and injure the brain, as electroshock unfailingly does, is a crime against the spirit and a desecration of the soul.” Since the early 1940s, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) also known as Electroshock or Shock has become a commonly used controversial “treatment”. In Massachusetts 15 hospitals administer Electroshock, including MGH. Each year, millions of people and their families are adversely impacted worldwide. Survivors have testified before the FDA about their health and careers ruined, memories and cognitive function permanently lost, and family lives destroyed. Women and the elderly are its main targets; 2-3 times more women than men are shocked. The elderly and children under 16 are at increased risk of Electroshock. Neither short or long-term efficacy nor safety have ever demonstrated! Euphoria is a short-term effect of all such brain injury. Permanent memory loss is a clinical indication of brain damage, which is not disclosed in most patient consent forms, although the risk of permanent memory loss is minimalized by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in its position papers. 150-400 volts of electricity causes a violent Grand Mal seizure and convulsion, while unconscious and paralyzed by a “muscle relaxant.” Today drugs and anesthesia are used to prevent people from breaking bones during the seizure. Upon waking up from this induced coma, the person experiences many effects: severe headache, physical weakness, disorientation, confusion, nausea, vomiting, and memory loss. Most people are administered a “course” of 10-12 Electroshocks, sometimes more. Electroshock earns the psychiatric industry an estimated $5 billion a year in the United States alone. In 1978, the United States Food and Drug Administration classified ECT machines as “unsafe” or “dangerous.” In 2011, the FDA re-affirmed its earlier ruling, despite lobbying by the APA and other psychiatrists to get the machines classified in Class-II as “safe” similar to a wheelchair or walker. been Shock Treatment is crime against humanity! For more information go to ectjustice.com and ectresources.org